"'I want a president: Transcript of a Rally' documents an afternoon of readings, speeches and performances on Nov. 6, 2016 on New York City’s High Line. Two days before the general election, the event convened artists, poets and performers to reflect on political leadership and community action in relation to my 1992 text I want a president. After the election, the memory of that day took on a different meaning, and we decided to make this book as a way to mark these ongoing conversations, and our continuing belief in the possibility of an equitable, sustainable and compassionate society."

— Zoe Leonard, 2017

The work is available for $9.71 US, here, and for free, as a PDF, here. Part of the proceeds from the sales of the paper edition are earmarked for Black & Pink, a national organization that provides support for LGBTQ prisoners, currently and formerly incarcerated, through advocacy, education, direct service, and organizing.

“I want a dyke for president. I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to AIDS, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no air-conditioning, a president who has stood in line at the clinic, at the DMV, at the welfare office, and has been unemployed and laid off and sexually harassed and gaybashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown. Always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker. Always a liar, always a thief, and never caught.”

Friday, April 28, 2017

A week from today the Logan Center hosts a two-day symposium and screening series that looks at the contributions that Fluxus and Fluxus related artists contributed to cinema. Film and video work will be screened by Wolf Vostell, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, George Maciunas, George Brecht, Albert Fine, Ludwig Schönherr, Paul Sharits, Joe Jones, Carolee Schneemann (whose 1964 film Meat Joy is pictured above) and Eric Andersen, who also serves as the keynote speaker.

The sixth issue of Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar's Avalanche Magazine is devoted to entirely to the works of Vito Acconci. The issue serves as a kind of catalogue of Acconci's early performances, featuring documentation of pieces such as Trademarks, Rubbing Piece, Waterways, Centers, Shadow Box, See Through, Prying, Sound Barrier, Memory Box, Control Box, Supply Room, and perhaps the artists' most notorious work, Seedbed (in which the artist masturbated beneath a ramp for two weeks inside the Sonnabend Gallery).

Cutts' first collection of concrete poetry for The Jargon Society, the independent press founded by poet Jonathan Williams, which has been called "a paradoxical fusion of fine printing and samizdat diffusion."

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Produced by Haring as part of the "AIDS: Don't Die of Ignorance" educational campaign, this plastic condom box with belt-clip features an image of Haring's three-eye smiling face from 1984. It holds a single condom.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

First Parkett earlier this year, and now The Thing Quarterly has decided to cease publishing. The next project, by Dave Muller, will be the 34th and final issue. Originally intended as a one-year experiment, The Thing Quarterly will celebrate it's tenth anniversary in June.

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Estroflessione (which translates to Extroversion in English) is an early catalogue on the work of the Italian artist who Donald Judd viewed as "the father of minimalism", accompanied by a thermoformed plastic multiple. It's estimate value is between six and seven thousand dollars.

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About Me

Dave Dyment is an artist, writer and curator based in Toronto, Canada. He is the co-editor of "One for Me and One to Share: Artists Multiples and Editions" (YYZ Books, 2012). His own work can be viewed at www.dave-dyment.com. He is represented by MKG127.